• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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    21 hours ago

    I mean, yeah? An extermination camps is arguably several magnitudes worse than a concentration camp, isn’t it?

    That doesn’t detract from both being horrific.

    Hyperbole and analogies are just two conflicting figures of speech. The overall message is weakened than if either is used by itself.

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      10 hours ago

      How many people have to die of negligence before it becomes an extermination camp? Or does the term extermination camp necessitate active acts of murder?

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        15 hours ago

        Dachau? No, it never became an extermination camp. Hell, I visited the memorial site and know about its history to some extent (though certainly far less than actual historians).

        It killed tens of thousands still, especially in the later parts of WW2. But its purpose was still to concentrate enemies of the state and not to exterminate them.

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        17 hours ago

        I’m not necessarily a fan of using words from nazi-germany to describe MAGA shit, because it allows the maga-fascists to say they’re not as bad as the nazi-fascists (which I believe is true, for now). But if you’re gonna do, I don’t think this is how you should do it.

        I don’t have to explain that if you use a thing and put a new word for it, you get a new thing (for example, New York is different than York). But the thing is, you can’t always know what connotations people have with the added word. A toy car and a super car are both cars, but you know one of those doesn’t have an engine. The word toy downgrades how serious it is compared to just the word car alone. The opposite is true for summer camp and concentration camp, where concentration adds a different meaning to the word camp.

        Because Auswitz is most of all known as a place where millions of people were killed and, putting a new word in front most of the time will make it actually sound less awful. Alligator Auswitz, at least to me, makes it sound like a less deadly place than ‘normal’ Auswitz.

        Auswitz Alcatraz on the other hand sounds like a deadlier version of the ‘normal’ Alcatraz.